Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-02-12

| your miserable style puts me out
Of conceit Of heaven" Lord Ches-
praying for his soul, bothered himself about
the proprieties of tho sick room, saying:
'sGive Dayroles chair" Godfrey Knelter
died while making a diagram for his own
monument. Oh, compare such a silly and
horrible getting out Of life with The departure
Of Edward Payson, who said: "The breezes
Of heaven fan me. / float in a Tea of
glory" Or. with Paul, as he said: 81
and now ready to be offered and the time of
my departure is at hand.n He was looking
| up then through the aperture of his dungeon
and the officers of the law were standing
there looking down in the dungeon. and Paul
said, when they asked him; care you ready:
are you ready to so out on tho road to Ostea
and be beheaded; are you ready nowfn And
the old missionary, cecrepit with exposure
and hard work for God, looked up and said:
~ am now ready; l am now ready to be
offered, and the time Of my departure is at
hand; l have fought the good fight. I have
finished my course, have kept the faith
henceforth there is laid up for me a crown
of Righteousness, aud not only for me, but
for all those that love His appearing" Per-
baps just as grand deathbed in your own
home. Oh, the measurement Of this life
by the worldly standard and the
measurement of this life by the Christian
standard. 1t seems to me to-day is the time
for me to begin to do better. and it is time
for YOU, my brother, my sister, to begin TO
do better. The swift years have howp.
The old year has gone, the new year has
come. and for what purpose you and
! havo been launched on this other
year God only knows. And l would
like 20 ask you in this crisis of time, what
is your preparation for eternity. You are
not surprised at the man on the North River
steamboat who, when n Christian man gave
him n frapf was veI.v INDIGNANT and tore n
up and threw it into the river; but one
word of that tract fell upon his coat
sleeve and he looked at it after the rest
of the tract had flown, and it was that
one word, that broad word, that high
VOID, that deep word, that long word, setter
nityw Call it back" said a dying woman,
'cau it backl" "Why," they said, "what do
you want TO come backp "Oh,n she said,
"call it back-timei timel call it backin We
may lose our fortunes and may gain them
again We may lose our health aud
have it restored again. We may lose
our cool name and by life of virtue
subsequently may restore our good name;
but time gone is gone forever. Now, some
people say they would Ike to go back again
TO boyhood and live their life over again:
hey would do so much better next time.
would not dare to go back to boyhood as
am afraid / would do worse than / have
lone. You, my brother, could not afford to go
Udck 70 10Y 0OOu. yOu IliRuI no HOES0 tDtu
you have done. But we cannot go back. The
future is before us. and congratulate you,
Oh, people of God, congratulate you that
another year has gone What does it mean,
1t means nearer home; it means nearer our
Fathers house; it means that you are nearer
the compauionship of loved ones who have
gone before. Why should you be sad
about thats When 1 tell you that your
face ought to be illumined with a great
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we hang on to this world with so much avid
lty when there is much brighter world
ahead, and we ought to be glad that we have
got nearer it. Why not go to the centre
Why stay clear out here on the rim OF the
universe. Why not glad we are going nearer
to the centre! We study God here only
by Bible photograph. But you know that
acquainted with friend than you could by
fifty years of looking at photograph; and
the little babe that die dlast nights six months
old, this moment knows more Of God than
all Andover, all Princeton, all Rochester,
all Middletown and all Edinburgh,
all the theological institutions of
earth But here we want to stay on
the outside. on the rim of this great uni
verse, and when we get little sick we are
frightened. and we are alarmed about this
accident and that accident, lest suddenly we
be hurled into light and glory uuutterable;
and we go around asking what is good for
rheumatism, and what is good for a bad
and are fcarfully alarmed, and when
We get sick we call in the doctor
in wild haste, lest we be rusho1 into a
land where they are never sick, but have inn
mortal health. And here we hold on to the
circumference, afraid to go to the centre,
while we look through the cracks and the
keyhole of heaven, afraid the door of the
mansion will be swung wide open and we
will stand in the glory the infinite. Hang
ing on TO the pauperism OF sin and
sorrow of this world and afraid that some
time suddenly we will have presented to us
an Emperors palace surrounded by parks
aud beautiful paths on which the angels of
God walk two and two. Would it not be
awful if we were suddenly to get crown, a
throne and a triumph! Sorry another year
has Comet Glad of it. Nearer the glory that
God has provided for His people. Weare like a
group of people standing on the cold steps of
the National Picture Gallery, London, under
umbrellas in the rain, and you come along
and say; Why don't you go into the pic
ture gallervr' They say: eve don't know
whether we can get in" You say: "TLe
door is openn "Yes,n they say. 'it is open,
but we have been staying here a while and
we have got so attached to these cold steps
we propose to stay here.". You say:
"You ought to go in, It is so grand and beau
III iuStuC my Guy A'Os We hhO" .luSo
how it is out here, and we don't know how
it is in there" That is you AMI that is me.
Gin ring on to this life as though it were all (;
forgetful OF the fact that the great picture
gallery, the great throne room. the
great grandeur ana glory are all ahead.
In the year 1885. the French thought in
Client they would have a musical demonstra-
tion such as the world had never seen, and
It was made up of the chime of bells and dis
charge Of cannon. 1t was a grand and glori
GUS success, nothing ever, perhaps, like il
heard on earth. 1t was triumphal march
that has become q matter Of history.
When the cannon were fired and when the
bells of all the churches and all the towers
rang the effect was overwhelming. Bu
grander will be the Accomplishment Of Gods
children when they go out Of this world at
the blast Of the Judgment trumpet, and when
Gcd shall call them home the bells Of the
churches and all the towers and all the
light houses will chime, and the sound will be
joined by the booming Of bursting magazine
and fortress and augmented by all the cathe-
dral towers of Heaven. The harmonious celes-
tial and the harmonious terrestrial united in
oneg great march fit to celebrate the ascent OF
soul to where it shall shine as the stars for
ever and forever. With such considerations
we may look back upon the flying years with.
out a single regret, and with exuitation for
ward to the time when the archangel, with
one foot on the sea and the other on the land.
shall swear by Him that liveth forever and
ever that time shall be no longer